Prauliena Parish, Madona Municipality, Kuja Nature Park
Farmer: Ilze Brante
- Main activity: beef cattle farming
- Farming since: 2007
- Total managed area: 61 ha, including approximately 30 ha of semi-natural grasslands (category 2) and around 6 ha of semi-natural grasslands (category 3)
- Other facts: organic farm
Planned restoration: 69 ha of grasslands.
The following activities will be carried out by SIA “Matricari”:
- Regulation of grazing intensity and establishment of a paddock system
- Land surface levelling (disking, milling)
- Control of expansive species (through grazing management, tussock milling and sowing of yellow rattle on 18 ha)
- Introduction of characteristic species (feeding seed-rich hay, spreading seed-rich grass and sowing grassland species)
- Removal of winter feeding sites
- Improvement of grazing infrastructure